Giovanni Netzer's new dance theater in the Episcopal Palace dances the Dance of Death into a new history and perspective

The classic dance of death brings everyone to their graves. Death personified haunts the land of the living and brings people down: the beggar, the queen, the merchant, the pope, the child. Inevitable, incomprehensible, non-negotiable, seemingly arbitrary. - But what if man is the death of man? When the warmonger sacrifices young lives? When the head of state cuts off development aid? When the mountaineer pulls his rope companion into the abyss? When the nurse grabs a pillow, the therapist takes the risk of jumping over a bridge, the driver speeds into the pedestrian zone? We are all potential interns of Gevatter Tod, we play fate, incessantly. Delegating all the blame to the myth falls short. It's time to rethink the dance of death: with dancers Borja Bermudez, Adrien Borruat, Nicolas Gläsmann, Júlia Martí-Gasull, Bonnie Paskas, Alex Vazquez Gala and pianist Alena Sojer to the sounds of Shostakovich.


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